Editing Noble savage (section)

=== Supporters of primitivism ===
In "The Prehistory of Warfare: Misled by Ethnography" (2006), the researchers Jonathan Haas and Matthew Piscitelli challenged the idea that the human species is innately disposed towards being aggressive or is inclined to engage in violent conflict and propose rather that warfare is an occasional activity by a society and is not an inherent part of human culture.<ref name="Haas2013">See: {{cite book|first1=Jonathan|last1=Haas|url=https://www.academia.edu/2968441|title=War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views|first2=Matthew|last2=Piscitelli|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0190232467|editor-first=Douglas P.|editor-last=Fry|location=New York|pages=168–190|entry=The Prehistory of Warfare: Misled by Ethnography}}</ref> Moreover, the [[UNESCO]]'s [[Seville Statement on Violence]] (1986) specifically rejects claims that the human propensity towards violence has a genetic basis.<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Eric Michael|date=19 June 2012|title=The Better Bonobos of Our Nature|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/the-better-bonobos-of-our-nature/|access-date=22 June 2021|website=Scientific American}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Baldwin|first=Melinda|date=16 June 2019|title=The Search for What Makes Us Human: The Killer Ape Account of the Mid-20th Century|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-search-for-what-makes-us-human-the-killer-ape-account-of-the-mid-20th-century/|access-date=22 June 2021|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref>

[[Anarcho-primitivism|Anarcho-primitivists]], such as the philosopher [[John Zerzan]], rely upon a strong [[ethical dualism]] between Anarcho-primitivism and [[civilization]]; hence, "life before domestication [and] agriculture was, in fact, largely one of leisure, intimacy with nature, sensual wisdom, sexual equality, and health."<ref name="FuturePrimitive">{{cite web|title=John Zerzan – Future Primitive|url=http://www.primitivism.com/future-primitive.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402072021/http://www.primitivism.com/future-primitive.htm|archive-date=2 April 2009|access-date=13 November 2011|publisher=Primitivism.com}}</ref> Zerzan's claims about the moral superiority of primitive societies are based on a certain reading of the works of anthropologists, such as [[Marshall Sahlins]] and [[Richard Borshay Lee]], wherein the anthropologic category of ''[[Urgesellschaft|primitive society]]'' is restricted to hunter-gatherer societies who have no domesticated animals or agriculture, e.g. the stable [[social hierarchy]] of the American Indians of the north-west North America, who live from fishing and foraging, is attributed to having domesticated dogs and the cultivation of tobacco, that animal husbandry and agriculture equal civilization.<ref name="FuturePrimitive" /><ref name="RunningOnEmptiness">{{cite web|title=John Zerzan – Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought|url=http://www.primitivism.com/emptiness.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131081232/http://primitivism.com/emptiness.htm|archive-date=31 January 2009|access-date=13 November 2011|publisher=Primitivism.com}}</ref>

In anthropology, the argument has been made that key tenets of the myth of the noble savage idea inform cultural investments in places seemingly removed from the Tropics, such as the Mediterranean and specifically Greece, during the debt crisis by European institutions (such as documenta)<!-- What is "documenta"? Is this a typo? Clarification is needed. --> and by various commentators who found Greece to be a positive inspiration for resistance to austerity policies and the neoliberalism of the EU<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kalantzis |first1=Konstantinos |title=The Indigenous Sublime Rethinking Orientalism and Desire from documenta 14 to Highland Crete |journal=Current Anthropology |doi=10.1086/728171 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/728171?journalCode=ca}}</ref> These commentators' positive embrace of the periphery (their mythical noble savage ideal) is the other side of the mainstream views, also dominant during that period, that stereotyped Greece and the South as lazy and corrupt.